Effective January 1, 2025, Healthy Blue has been selected as one of the Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) to serve the Kansas Medicaid Program with KanCare. Healthy Blue will replace Aetna Better Health. [...]
Prior to the 1990s, Kansas had widespread healthcare gaps between the rural and/or underserved Kansas communities and the larger urban cities which have plentiful access to quality healthcare. These healthcare discrepancies led [...]
Vicki Bond, CEO of Medical Provider Resources Under Bond's leadership, the company has more than doubled its employee count, added a key service line and expanded its presence in six [...]
The distinction between emergency and disaster privileges is straightforward: emergency privileges are provided to current medical staff practitioners, while disaster privileges are extended to external practitioners to manage multiple patients during a [...]
The recent publication of the Quality Review Edition of The Surveyor by the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) sheds light on critical aspects of healthcare delivery in acute care hospitals and [...]
A judge sentenced three people to federal prison on April 2, 2024 for their involvement in a scheme to sell fake diplomas and transcripts to people seeking to become nurses. Since January [...]
On December 29, 2022, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 enacted a new one-time, eight (8)-hour training requirement for ALL Drug Enforcement Administration registered practitioners on the treatment and management of patients [...]
Effective May 15th, the Kansas Board of Healing Arts will open its portal to allow Kansas MDs to renew their state licenses. How much and what type of CME is required for [...]
Like other states, physicians providing medical care to patients in the state of Kansas are required to hold an active Kansas license. Since 2017, physicians have had a faster pathway to licensure [...]
Medical Specialties Prone to Lawsuits: General Surgery Tops List, Obstetrics and Gynecology Follows The Physicians and Malpractice Report 2023 by Medscape sheds light on the specialties most frequently involved in malpractice lawsuits. [...]
